the cable company and i are locked in another dispute. the fucking gateway box has this very irritating hum when the hard drive goes berserk or the fan switches gears. i called and complained and they offered to send out a technician to relocate the box i my garage. i'm thinking of taking them up on the offer but when the technician arrives just handing him a garbage bag with all the parts inside and telling him that i'm done with the gateway system. take it from me, it's a piece of shit. i doesn'do anything the old pvr couldn't do other than record 6 programs at the same time.
on a different note, i fucked up my income taxes. after assembling countless information slips and producing a splendid spreadsheet i sent it all off along with a cheque for the amount owing. for some reason the cheque wasn't cashed and i received my assessment from the canada revenue agency with a credit for the cheque that wasn't cashed. after pondering all this i decided to check my bank accounts. i happened across a $45 non sufficient funds charge in a CIBC account. it seems that i transferred the funds into my TDwaterhouse account but wrote the cheque on a CIBC account. the canada revenue agency only charged $15 for the rubber cheque. so my stupidity resulted in a $60 charge plus the interest canada revenue agency will charge. lucky fucking me. maybe friends and family will quit asking me to do their taxes if they find out how i fucked up on my own taxes. so it goes.
in summation, i hate the cable company and taxes. but i love my old pennies! if anyone was paying attention last year they might remember me bitching and complaining about the canadian governments decision to scrap the penny. when i saw old pennies for sale at the coin shop i couldn't resist. of course they cost me a lot more than a penny each but they're the old pure copper beauties!
the lovely mrs myshkin does not share my love of pennies.
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I loathe the cable company but I have to bite my tongue about the tax man as they might be monitoring my online activity so with that in my mind: I love the IRS with every fiber of my being. We got a letter from them about a week ago saying we screwed up our taxes in 2011 and owe them more money. We wrote them a letter begging for their mercy. Hope your tax problems get squared away as well as your cable issues. Those pennies look marvelous, BP. An excellent investment if you ask me. Take care buddy.
Are you planning to mould those old pennies into something, like a copper pot or some other artefact? It might be interesting to re-apply some of that old Bronze Age technology.
The obviously investment astute pilgrim admitted,
"......of course they cost me a lot more than a penny each but they're the old pure copper beauties!....."
As that famous conflated showman/economist P.T. Adam Smith Barnum famously remarked: "There's an Invisible Hand born every minute"!
Oh and the Canadian penny was never pure copper. They were always contaminated with various percentages of Tin and Zinc, and other metals in the last few decades.
In fact, if you can find, in your astute purchase, a penny which pre-dates 2002 AND is magnetic(that is responsive to a magnet), you might be rich!
Oh, and a '1936 Dot penny' would certainly keep you in the style in which you would certainly acclimate.
Paid $4.10 a gallon for gas yesterday. Oh well, pretty hard to get around without it.
billy pilgrim sexualised,
"......on a different note, i fucked up my income taxes......."
In 2003, I discovered that the soon-to-be Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin, had 'arranged' to have many of his CSL boats registered in Barbados.
Why?
It seems that any profits accrued/earned by Canadian businesses registered in Barbados pay no tax to Barbados AND the profits can be remitted to Canada without incurring any Canadian tax liability!
I immediately 'Incorporated' myself - $500 in legal fees - and set about ensuring my 'Business Location' was located in Barbados. The Barbados 'loophole' has since closed, but there are always many countries available for this legal tax evasion trick. In the last 10 years I have spent $6,000 in Lawyers fees and saved almost 100 times that in Canadian Income Tax.
Only idiots try to 'hide' income in Tax Havens - you always get caught. The real smart folk, register themselves in certain countries and repatriate their money tax free!
mr shife - the cable box will not be long for this world if it doesn't start behaving itself. i can't believe that anyone would put up with the noise this thing makes.
gb - i'm keeping my eyes open for glass receptacles to serve as book ends when filled with pennies.
aquarian - i fuck with a lot of things but not with the canada revenue agency. my pennies are supposed to be 98.5% copper. i rounded up to 100%.
bill - know anyone with a good used bridge for sale?
The Canadian penny has never been more than 98% Cu - ever!
It was once 98.4% Zinc though.
Rounding up is, if I am not mistaken, a right afforded you by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Enjoy it while you still can!
"......i fuck with a lot of things but not with the canada revenue agency......"
In case you were unaware, the recently published DSM-5 now distinguishes between paraphilic behaviours, or paraphilias, and paraphilic disorders.
If, as you say, you have fucked, and presumably continue to fuck, with myriad things by affixing a sexuoerotic embellishment to them, I'd be careful now.
Leslie should also be careful. This thing she has with the "Taints" smacks of sexuoerotic embellishment like a swarm of termites.
There is a very important difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance. Distinguishing between the two can be very lucrative.
The folks that went in with the bridge sure got lucky. I've been over many bridges much older. A few so narrow that two 18 wheelers could hardy squeeze by each other without damage to the mirrors.
hah! i just heard that it was a canadian truck from alberta that caused the whole thing.
if obumble doesn't approve keystone, we'll take out 1 bridge per week.
i'm still operating under DSM-4 protocols.
Pilgrim~ please spare the bridge BBC uses when he takes Helen for hot dogs.
Really?
DSM-4?
How retro of you.
Not to worry then, you're normal.
The fucking bitch monkey thinks we cross a bridge to go to Monkeyville for Helen's hotdog dinner!
BBC, is "hot dog dinner" code for sexytime? Is that why there's no bridge involved?
The fucking bitch monkey wouldn't make a pimple on Helen's ass. Helen is a woman I respect a great deal. The fucking bitch monkey thinks I would have sex with a woman I respect.
What a crunt.
What happeed to "sharing spirit while she fondles our cock"?
What is this "have sex with" crap??
To get to my blog you have to be invited and accept the invite. The way you invite readers to a private blog is to provide Google with an email address and they send the invite.
But it doesn't seem to work in some cases, Jenny bitched cuz she didn't get an invite even though she was, so she gave me a different email address and it worked and she got in.
There's six others that haven't gotten their invites either.
gerbsc@gmail.com
Will I get an invite?
You don't want me to bitch like Jenny, do you?
Who are the six who have yet to receive their invites?
I got mine but I didn't respond. Felt like a trap.
Google sent you an invite and not me?
Perhaps it is because I once used "Bing" to search for "BBC said,".
I'm being punished!
BBC hates nine iron monkey bitches. That's why he didn't invite you. Also, his therapist told him to ignore you and focus on the positive.
The fucking bitch monkey thinks she knows what my therapist tells me.
Crunt!
*poof*
king - all therapists say the same thing:
"you're a fabulous and unique person and nothing is your fault."
that's why women love therapists.
Dearest BBC?
Why do you have "Comment Moderation" enabled on your now private, and very much elite, blog?
Do you not trust what your own invited 'friends' might write?
I would think this to be rather insulting to them. Then again, what do I know?
BBC's therapist mostly tells him his "time is up" - usually 15 minutes before it actually is - and then has a very long, hot shower.
billy pilgrim diagnosed,
"......"you're a fabulous and unique person and nothing is your fault."
that's why women love therapists......"
BBC and other Caucasoid males all say the same thing:
"You're a wretched and useless person and everything is your fault."
That's why certain women love white men.
aquarian:
CAN THIS BE TRUE??
Oh yeah, that's totally not about racism or intolerance.
The Tutor tells me that no human with any self respect would ever even hazard to temporarily transit Brampton, much less live there.
The one time I was there - buying some crack - I found it to be an olfactory nuisance - there's a Domtar Bitumen Processing Facility there. In other words, it spelt like the rest of Canada smells west of the Saskatchewan River - tar sands shite and all.
This land was always ours
Was the proud land of our fathers
It belongs to us and them
Not to any of the others
Let them go, boys
Let them go, boys
Let them go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
It "spelt" like the rest of Canada? Little pointy-eared nymph, please. The RoC's speling is eggsemplery, i'l has you no.
Any band which uses the tin whistle, cittern, mandolin and accordion in its music is not one The Tutor and I could ever respect, much less listen to!
Jethro Tull, notwithstanding.
Jethro Tull and Heart! What is wrong with you?!
"Little pointy-eared nymph"?
I'm not so little and as far as being "nymph-like", I reckon a Djinn is more appropriate a descriptor of my minor female divinity.
Oh yeah, Heart, forgot them, sorry!
Come chase the dragon with me Mister Pilgrim.
Oh and Enya, Moby and that Greek guy, Yanni are cool too!
A Big Djinn, eh? They were the most fun to take down on the old back wards of the asylum. Not going to take your chlorpromazine orally? Sweep the feet, slam, chock-out if necessary. Get the IM ready, Gladys.
dragon? - why don't you come fishing with me instead.
"Chlorpromazine"?
Please to update your pharmaceutical knowledge. The profession has moved away from Typical Antipsychotics to embrace the "kinder and gentler" Atypical Antipsychotics.
Besides, my affliction is not one of schizophrenia, but Multiple Personality Disorder.
I will often imbibe CPZ for recreational use, however; the resultant 'Thorazine shuffle' is great for rockin' out at the local Discothèque on Base Petawawa: "Vimy Ridge Rock-'n'-Ream".
The Tutor has grown a bushy, unkempt beard - he says the gheys love it.
He looks like he belongs in that "Duck Dynasty" television show - as the grandfather perhaps.
He's taken to calling me "Frogmilla" too.
I do so worry about him. At least he doesn't have a "private blog" that also enforces comment moderation like that arse BBC. I guess the old cunt can't even trust his oldest and dearest Internet friends.
Sheesh!
I thought YOU were the tutor's beard.
If I'm The Tutor's beard, then The Tutor is my merkin.
Probably your gerkin as well.
And while I'm here I'd like to send a special Memoial Day shoutout to BBC for "helping to keep my ass free", though he's never detailed when or how or where he did that.
".....shoutout to BBC for "helping to keep my ass free"......"
Nu?
The "ass" was free but the fifty dollars was for "Administration Costs" then?
I'm smirkin'
Gerkin?
Ha!
Vlasic Kosher Dill more like!
As the ad goes:
"the pickle (soon to be) pregnant women crave . . . after all, who's a better pickle expert?"
the king was in the navy and he doesn't have comment moderation on the private blog i visit.
long live the king!
"....(BBC) was in the navy...."
Really?
Whose?
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can't you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
That navy?
Bugger!
I may retire to Canada yet if their revenue folks are THAT understanding.
I'm beginning to understand how banks fuck you over MORE than gov't - and screw them ALSO - if given half a chance!
I was going to try to get you to do my taxes, but...ah that's okay, you're probably too busy anyway.
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